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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN consultancies Wardrop Engineering and Micon International are to offer joint advice on metallurgical projects, from initial resource estimation, feasibility studies and operational analysis, to site closure. Micon’s specialisms include ore reserve estimation, metallurgical design, mineral property valuation and monitoring of project development for international banking syndicates.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WILDLIFE conservationists and beer makers in Canada have combined their efforts to produce a brew called SOS beer where a portion of the sales’ proceeds goes toward species and habitat protection.

A Quebec micro-brewery launched the project two years ago, and has just recently expanded it to neighbouring Ontario; it has designed labels for the bottles depicting endangered species of the two regions.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
MOLSON and Labatt, Canada’s two beer giants, have moved to a second stage inm their legal battle over the right to use the “export” name on brands in Ontario.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has been asked to grant an injunction that would restrict Labatt from selling or advertising Oland Export Ale, a brand produced from Oland, which is a Halifax-based subsidiary of Labatt.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE MORE alcohol one consumes, the more money one makes, and vice versa, according to research by a Canadian academic at the University of Calgary.

Dr Chris Auld, an assistant professor of economics, concluded that teetotalers were generally poorer, following research correlating alcohol consumption and income.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has sought to allay fears that it is dragging its feet over the implementation of liberalisation commitments it made when it was admitted into the World Trade Organisation. It has released explanatory notes to the European Union and Canada, who have raised concerns over the opening of textile import quotas.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN casual clothing retailer Au Coton Inc has announced that it is insolvent and will be restructured under bankruptcy legislation, owing creditors more than CAN$23 million. Larger discounters like Walmart and competitive US chains like Gap and Old Navy have affected Au Coton’s competitiveness.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CANADIAN brewers Molson and Labatt are currently embroiled in a legal battle over the right to use the term ‘export’ in brands sold in the key market of in Ontario.

Molson is asking the province’s Court of Appeal to grant an injunction that would prohibit Labatt from selling or advertising Oland Export Ale, a brand produced from Oland, its Halifax, Nova Scotia, based subsidiary.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CANADA’S federal government will tighten regulations on Sport Utility Vehicles by changing their classification from trucks to cars to force manufacturers to abide by their tighter emissions laws, reducing pollution from SUV’s.

The move is part of an overhaul of Canadian maximum emission levels for oxides of nitrogen, which will see the ceilings for cars reduced from 0.3 grams per mile to between 0.07 grams per mile.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN Tobacco growers are still waiting for their country’s cigarette companies, such as Imperial Tobacco, to stump up their share of an CAN $80 million programme, initiated by the Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers Marketing Board, to retrofit kilns to destroy nitrosamine, a substance Health Canada declared toxic two years ago, by introducing indirect heat to the curing process.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced a ban on the sale in the EU of jelly mini-cups containing the food additive konjac (E 425), which take time to dissolve and have lead to the deaths of several American and Canadian children through choking.…